PS nomi-Nation

As 2011 comes to an end that can only mean one thing, The Golden Minecart Awards!

Get ready to vote for all your favorites in some new, and hopefully refreshingly unique, categories. The polls will be posted at the end of the year, and you’ll have a few days to pick the winners.

PS Nation staff (podcast hosts and website writers) will nominate our six favorite games in each category and will then ask the community to pick the winners. Voting will be hosted on this website.

One slight problem if you can call it that. There were too many great games released in 2011, and we can’t figure out which last one to nominate. Please help by choosing your favorite. Highest vote will be nominated in the sixth and final spot for PS3 game of the year.

We’ve narrowed it down to our five favorites and those five have already been nominated. The nominees for Golden Minecart 2011: PS3 Game of the Year:

I was surprised to see Dead Space 2 on that list. It really posed a problem for me, then. I love the Dead Space franchise but ultimately had to go with Portal 2 – a game that I feel should have already been on the top 5 list. Picking a single best this year is gonna be tough!

Portal 2 most definitely. It is the most polished experiences you could have on the PS3 this year. BF3 and R3 are both great, but they feel rushed and in places and feel like they would’ve benefited from extra development time.

My actual vote in the Golden Minecarts will be Uncharted 3, but for the last spot here I chose Portal 2. Such a good game, and as much as I loved Mass Effect 2, Portal deserves its’ place in the GOTY poll.